On Thu, 05.08.10 12:58, Michael Schwendt (mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 10:46:42 +0000 (UTC), Petr wrote: > > > I agree NAS is very old audio system, but it has history. It works (or > > should work) across operating systems (do not think only about Linux). > > In addition it supports bidirectional sound transmission (from > > microphone). > > > > PulseAudio is interresting project, but it's absolutely unusable on old > > slow hardware. Last time I checked it out on Pentium TSC (no MMX) > > running at 200 MHz, it consumed 20 % of CPU just in idle mode. While > > `playing', it congested CPU, printed some warnings about stream buffer > > overflow and terminated gracefully complaining about no CPU cycles. NAS > > or Esound work on the machine fluently. > > > > Thus I took NAS maintainance over and I'm going to resurrect it. > > Does anybody think the same about EsounD? > We still include it in Fedora. We still build lots of audio packages > for it. But is it still being used by anyone? Well, we actually wanted to orphan it a couple of releases ago. However I took up nominal maintainership of the package, simply because some closed source stuff still speaks the esd proto and I need something to test the PA proto implementation against. So I basically consider esd package a test case for myself, and that's the sole reason I maintain it. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
